Preparation is Key

Those who have been following the blog know that I have been having more than a difficult time over the last three years.  Back and forth to the hospital.  In and out of doctors offices.  Taking medicine, too many to name, and just overall adjustments to life.  When you have a lot going on: physical pain, mental discouragement, and no immediate answers as to why what is happening is happening, its easy to throw pity parties and continually feel sorry for yourself.  I will admit that what I have gone through and what many of you may be going through now, can be an extremely lonely time in your life.  Regardless of what people see you look like they have no idea of the rough road that you have been traveling.  A smile can definitely say a thousands words...one of those words it could say is that: I'm smiling just to cover up the pain.

Feeling alone in your experience though, is not an altogether bad thing.  Remember, it was John's isolation that brought about his glorious revelation of Jesus Christ.  I really do believe that God can show you more by yourself than he can in a crowd.  As I claim healing for myself and am what I believe to be on the other side of my valley, I have learned that preparation is key.  There is so much that God wants to do in our lives that if we would be honest with ourselves...we are not really prepared for.  We are currently NOT prepared for many of the things that God wants to accomplish through us!  As much as we would like to believe we are...We are NOT ready for marriage, NOT ready for that job promotion, NOT currently prepared for the move...and what God is trying to do now, is prepare you!  Preparation is KEY!!!

If you are like me then you oftentimes don't like waiting.  However what God is trying to do in you, because of you...takes a process, it takes time.  So God works on your character so that when you get to the place that he wants you to be you have the character to keep you where the assignment of God is trying to take you.  It would be a terrible thing if we didn't have the character to keep us where God ultimately wanted us to be and in order for that to happen, it takes preparation.

I have learned in my world, in this season of illness, to not magnify the illness but magnify the preparation. In other words: God what do I need to learn during this season of my life?  What area in my character are you exactly working on?  What needs to be accomplished now that I can't accomplish later?

Don't worry about the pain...its just preparation!